These ten best lists for movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert
have been collected from various postings in the Usenet newsgroup
rec.arts.movies. The lists through 1978 come from the Chicago
Tribune for Siskel, and the Chicago Sun-Times for Ebert. After that
most of the lists come from their best of the year TV show.

[There wasn't any ranking so the movies are listed in the order
they were presented in the show.]

1980

Gene Siskel

Roger Ebert

1. Raging Bull

1. The Black Stallion

2. Ordinary People

2. Raging Bull

3. Coal Miner's Daughter

3. Kagemusha

4. The Tree of Wooden Clogs

4. Being There

5. Kagemusha

5. Ordinary People

6. Being There

6. The Great Santini

7. The Black Stallion

7. The Empire Strikes Back

8. The Blues Brothers

8. Coal Miner's Daughter

9. The Great Santini

9. American Gigolo

10. The Stunt Man

10. Best Boy

1981

Gene Siskel

Roger Ebert

1. Ragtime

1. My Dinner with Andre

2. My Dinner with Andre

2. Chariots of Fire

3. Raiders of the Lost Ark

3. Gates of Heaven

4. Mon Oncle D'Amerique

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark

5. Gates of Heaven

5. Heartland

6. Bye Bye Brazil

6. Atlantic City

7. Prince of the City

7. Thief

8. Melvin and Howard

8. Body Heat

9. Body Heat

9. Tess

10. The French Lieutenent's Woman

10. REDS

1982

Gene Siskel

Roger Ebert

1. Moonlighting

1. Sophie's Choice

2. Tootsie

2. Diva

3. E.T.

3. E.T.

4. Diva

4. Fitzcarraldo / Burden of Dreams

5. Mephisto

5. Personal Best

6. Lola

6. Das Boot

7. Personal Best

7. Mephisto

8. Three Brothers

8. Moonlighting

9. Das Boot

9. The Verdict

10. An Officer and a Gentleman

10. The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

1983

Gene Siskel

Roger Ebert

1. The Right Stuff

1. The Right Stuff

2. Terms of Endearment

2. Terms of Endearment

3. Betrayl

3. The Year of Living Dangerously

4. Fanny and Alexander

4. Fanny and Alexander

5. Star 80

5. El Norte

6. The Year of Living Dangerously

6. Testament

7. Silkwood

7. Silkwood

8. Pauline at the Beach

8. Say Amen, Somebody

9. Risky Business

9. Risky Business

10. The Big Chill

10. The Return of Martin Guerre

1984

Gene Siskel

Roger Ebert

1. Once Upon a Time in America

1. Amadeus

2. Amadeus

2. Paris, Texas

3. The Cotton Club

3. Love Streams

4. Entre Nous

4. This is Spinal Tap

5. Purple Rain

5. The Cotton Club

6. The Killing Fields

6. Secret Honor

7. Secret Honor

7. The Killing Fields

8. A Passage to India

8. Stranger than Paradise

9. Micki and Maude

9. Choose Me

10. The Natural

10. Purple Rain

1985

Gene Siskel

Roger Ebert

1. Shoah

1. The Color Purple

2. Ran

2. After Hours

3. The Color Purple

3. The Falcon and the Snowman

4. Streetwise

4. Prizzi's Honor

5. Prizzi's Honor

5. Ran

6. The Official Story

6. Witness

7. Mishima

7. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

8. The Facon and the Snowman

8. Lost in America

9. Back to the Future

9. Street Wise

10. The Purple Rose of Cairo

10. Blood Simple

[Ebert excluded Shoah from his list, not because he thought the
other ten films were better, but because he felt it was in a class
by itself and it wouldn't be appropriate to rank ordinary movies
against it.]